Wim Rietveld (1924-1985) and Friso Kramer (born 1922) were born in the Netherlands. Wim Rietveld was an industrial furniture designer who studied Industrial Design at The Hague Academy before starting work in 1958 at De Cirkel, a steel furniture manufacturer that merged with the Ahrend group in 1939. Friso Kramer studied Interior Design at the Institute of Applied Arts in Amsterdam before also working at De Cirkel as a designer from 1948-1963. It was during their time at De Cirkel that the two designers met, developing together a series of iconic design collaborations, including the Result chair in 1958. Together with Ahrend, HAY has reproduced Rietveld and Kramer's original design of the...
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